Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 22, 4 June 1908, Page 35

Intercolonial

Tenders are being- called for the building of anew Catholic church at Glen Innes at a cost of - about £4000. . " .„ _- ■ ' .-. ;, - - T,he comparatively new Church of the Holy-Trinity, Granville, was almost completely destroyed by fire on jSLB/y 1 6 • Word has been received in Sydney that his Holiness the Pope has .received in-., audience the Most -Rev. Dr. Kelly, Coadjutor-Archbishop of Sydney. Archbishop Kelly was Rector of the Irish College, Rome, for a period of ten years.' The death occurred at Crookwell on . May 16 of the Hey. T. J. Carroll, who passed away after a long and painful illness, at the age of 55 years.' The deceased was a native of- Tipperary, and had labored in- Australia for .thirty years. According -to the -^census of- 1901 there -were' ■ 4486 Catholics -in the city of^Hobart and 3033 in the city of Launceston. In the rural districts' there were 22,795, or a total for Tasmania of 30,314.' The estimated Catholic population on December 31, 1906, is. put down by the Registrar-General as 32,303. ', :? ' A tender for the erection, of the- D^lton memorial church at St. Ignatius' College, Riverview, has been accepted. The cost will be about £3000. The church. is being erected by students, and friends of the college to perpetuate .the memory of the late VeryRev. Father Dalton, who was one of the -founders and also first Rector of the college. , ".-_." The members of the H.A.C.B. Society, to the number of 500, received their annual Communion at " St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, on Sunday, May 17. At the conclusion of the Mass the annual breakfast .was held,.. when his Eminence Cardinal Moran presided. Speaking of .the operations of the Society during the past year. the district president, Mr. L. Cotter, said he was pleased to report that the • increase in members had been 433, making a total of 7323 members ; the net increase in district funds amounted to £2428 15s 3d ; increase of branch funds, £3657 12s Id ; while district funeral fund totalled £18,170 17s 2d, and the branch sick fund showed £25,253 9s 6d, and other funds £1227 6s Bd. The funeral claims met during the "year ampunted to £700, constituting a record, whilst the interest earned by the funeral fund amounted to £7,90 17 s 6,d. Thus not only was the principal untouched, but after satisfying the claims out of the interest earned, £90 17s 6d remained. * When asked his opinion about the attack of a Presbyterian minister at the Sydney Presbyterian Assembly on the morals of Broken Hill, Dr. Dunne, Bishop of Wilcannia, said :— • The statement is- too sweeping. I don't think from the surroundings of the. place, that Broken Hill is worse than other centres. As far as the Catholic churches are concerned, there were never larger congregations than now, nor greater unity- of faith. Of .course there are matters here, just the same as elsewhere, that could heamenr ded ; but Broken Hill bears favorable .comparison with other mining centres. Better attention might be given" to the question of children being brought, up under, dubious surroundings, and a truant inspector should be permanently stationed in the city. Just as the late inspector,' concluded Bishop Dunne, ' was commencing to do good he was taken away, with the result that things became just as before.' '" ' r